The first comprehensive look at the origins and diffusion across Europe of the etched print during the late 15th and early 16th centuries The etching of images on metal, originally used as a method for decorating armor, was first employed as a printmaking technique at the end of the 15th century. This in-depth study explores the origins of the etched print, its evolution from decorative technique to fine art, and its spread across Europe in the early Renaissance, leading to the professionalization of the field in the Netherlands in the 1550s. Beautifully illustrated, this book features the work of familiar Renaissance artists, including Albrecht Dürer, Jan Gossart, Pieter Breughel the Elder, and Parmigianino, as well as lesser known practitioners, such as Daniel Hopfer and Lucas van Leyden, whose pioneering work paved the way for later printmakers like Rembrandt and Goya. The book also includes a clear and fascinating description of the etching process, as well as an investigation of how the medium allowed artists to create highly detailed prints that were more durable than engravings and more delicate than woodblocks.

The Renaissance of Etching

Arts & Photography

Jenkins, Catherine

Orenstein, Nadine M.

Spira, Freyda

History & Criticism

Metropolitan Museum of Art

This novel is about tossing secrets into the water to become free from the bonds of silence and unnamed tensions that often hold us back from embracing our sometimes uncomfortable and cumbersome selves. Poet and freelance editor and writer Catherine Jenkins' debut novel boldly celebrates the resilience and complexity of human emotion and spirit in sleek and honest poetic prose. We travel with the narrator as she floats through memories and dreams of her past lovers, dealing with AIDS, suicide and personal secrets kept deep beneath the surface. Wading through the past, she moves into a strong reflective present, poised to dive once again, this time into the cold uncertainty of the future with renewed self-assurance and self-acceptance. Each segment of the novel folds over the next, slowly building a complex emotional whole. The spare, direct style of this novel will be likened to that of such diverse writers as Elizabeth Smart and Jeanette Winterson. It is a daring novel that vividly captures the tensions between sexual manipulation, romantic fantasy, abuse and intimacy, and the relentless and rewarding drama of self-discovery.

Swimming in the Ocean: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Insomniac Pr

This tremendously promising first collection of erotic poetry is embroidered with lost lovers, bitter romanticism, sweet introspection, and a litany of sexual partners. In broad, vibrant strokes, emerging poet Catherine Jenkins explores the extremes of human connection and separation: lust, pleasure, pain, and all the wonderful, horrible permutations of love.

Blood, Love & Boomerangs

Harrison, Spencer J.

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